FORESTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forested mean? 

• FORESTED (adjective)
  The adjective FORESTED has 1 sense:

1. covered with forest

  Familiarity information: FORESTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORESTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with forest

Context example:

efforts to protect forested lands of the northwest

Similar:

wooded (covered with growing trees and bushes etc)

 Context examples 

Hares and spruces are common residents of forested floodplains, but hares, being mobile, are often faster than spruce seedlings in reaching the best habitat.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Most of the world is forested, but the energetic constraints of a leafy diet seem to prevent adaptive radiation.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

In an investigation of 19 sites in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, scientists discovered that heavily deforested areas leach organic carbon that is significantly older and more biodegradable than the organic carbon leached from densely forested regions.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)